Almost no one uses Linux client PCs for work, except for developers.

I literally never had a visible bug on Arch, whereas my last Ubuntu install greeted me with an error message because some part of gnome crashed right on first boot.
I realize this is anecdotal, though.

Linux hates, hates, hates NVidia.

It’s the other way around, actually.

the stability of Ubuntu

That’s not really a selling point.

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Sounds like a very complicated solution to a problem you could solve with a guillotine.

I’m talking about third party software, not what’s in the repository.
It’s usually available as .deb or .rpm and nothing else.
On Arch someone may or may not have converted it and put it in the AUR, and it may or may not be maintained.

Besides, I run Sid, which isn’t point release nor outdated.

One of our customers previously had an IT provider who set up an all-linux infrastructure.
He told us it almost brought his business down, since he was unable to find employees.
Every time he mentioned that they’d have to work with a Linux PC (as a secretary or bookkeeper) they backed out.

Are you talking about the complete OS or the kernel?

yes I know. (Besides, Debian’s official documentation isn’t the wiki, but the Debian handbook).
The point is, on Debian you don’t need the wiki. Things that are a long manual process on Arch (best example: Nextcloud) are already preconfigured or there’s a ready made solution available.

Oh yeah, I always use the graphical expert installer. If the normal installer defaults to 1GB of swap without telling you, that’s pretty bad.
1GB swap is pointless IMO. Either make the swap space twice your RAM or don’t bother.

Still don’t know how that could fuck up drivers though. On a normal system, I don’t even use swap anymore.

So fixing it is literally just what you’d have to do before reinstalling anyway. Reduce your root partition from a live system, increase swap partition, re-initialize swap. Done.

Also, the Debian installer tells you how big a swap partition it creates and asks you if that is what you want twice.

I don’t understand what you did that means you have to reinstall. Most issues can be solved in system.
One thing that made me switch back from Arch to Debian Sid was third party support.
The Arch wiki is great but for some things, I read through the 30-step process with multiple links to other wiki articles and then see there’s a preconfigured installer for .Deb available…

It was when I turned my back on Ubuntu for good.
Not directly because of that “feature” which could be uninstalled with a one-liner, but because it showed that Canonical’s view of their distro is very different from mine.

If you don’t manually edit /etc/passwd using ed, are you really a Linux user?

Then use one of the many, many alternatives.

Yeah, on desktop I use Debian Unstable, which is a really great rolling release distro with really bad marketing.

If you’re not using Cinnamon, why not just use Debian? What else does mint add?

It’s ancient history. Around 10 years ago, Ubuntu shipped with a desktop search plugin (activated by default) that sent everything you typed into your desktop search field to Amazon and showed you related products.

People are still pissed about it.

Debian Unstable